To my surprise it turns out the stereotypes are in fact richly deserved. The actual founder of Ultimate Frisbee said on the first Ultimate players "There were also druggie types. We were about evenly split between the better students and the half who smoked dope."
Somewhat disheartened by this fact I decided just to give up and summarize the history of Ultimate. The history of Frisbee follows the general thought pattern of a high schooler (who may or may not be smoking the reefer):
Hey wouldn't it be cool if we made a game with a frisbee?
Totally! Lets make it like football and soccer and basketball combined!
Dude, wouldn't it be sweet if we got our school to recognize us?
DUDE! We should totally make jackets that says we're a varsity sport!
Haha yeah! Lets make up some funny names on the roster.
We can say our head coach is that crazy janitor!
Oh man we should definitely challenge the newspaper staff to a game in the parking lot!
I didn't make any of this up. The newspaper game ended with a fight. Legend has it the winners of the fight went on the found South Carolina Ultimate. Don't ask me why.
Even stranger, the guy who brought frisbee back to his high school went on the write some of the Die Hard series (And thus was discovered the tenuous but significant connection between Samuel L. Jackson and Ultimate).
3 comments:
That's awesome, ultimate is amazing
so are you
you seem to want to leave one of the founding fathers anonymous, but his name is joe silver and is very famous movie guy, so it's freakin awesome. i one upped ya nate, you put it on your blog, i used an ap us project as an excuse to research ultimate frisbee and educate the masses.
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